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Liu Huijun was a woman last seen on CCTV footage at the Yuanlin Finance and Economics Building in Yuanlin, Taiwan, behaving erratically while carrying her 4-year-old daughter in her arms. Based on her behaviour and actions taken, the police believed she died by suicide, taking her daughter with her. However, several searches of the building turned up no signs of either.
Case[]
On 21 January 2008, a security guard at the Yuanlin Finance and Economics Building, a residential and office building in Yuanlin, Taiwan, found a pair of women's shoes hazardously discarded outside the stairwell on the first floor. He then entered the elevator and saw a red coat and a pair of shoes left on the floor. He spoke to the building's manager, and the two decided to review the CCTV footage.
The footage showed that on 20 January, a woman, accompanied by a child, entered the elevator and pressed the 11th-floor button. She then removed her red coat and neatly placed it on the elevator floor. Afterwards, she removed the child's coat and slipped off her shoes before leaving the elevator with the child in her arms. The camera then captured her running down the hallway toward the stairwell, the only way to access the building's rooftop. This was the last time any of the two came into the view of the building's cameras. In many East Asian cultures, people often take their shoes off before taking their life to avoid tracking dirt into the afterlife. Based on this cultural practice and the direction they were heading, the manager called the police.
The police walked around the entire building, checked the balconies, and looked down at the rooftops of the neighbouring buildings, but found no bodies. The police then questioned all the residents of the building, but they were asleep when she arrived. The police searched every corner of the entire rooftop multiple times, opened the transformer box, the fire ventilation vents, the communications tower, the water tank and the pipes. The police also checked CCTV footage from each exit and from the neighboring businesses, but none showed the two leaving.
On 28 January, the woman was identified as Huijun based on her moped, which was left abandoned in the parking lot, and after her husband came forward once the case was broadcast on the local news. Huijun's husband was said to be abusive, and her family arranged her marriage with him, so Huijun argued with her husband and family regularly. On 19 January, Huijun took her youngest daughter and left the rural village they lived in on her moped. Huijun and her daughter wouldn't be seen again until they appeared on CCTV footage in Yuanlin.
In December 2023, a court declared Huijun and her daughter dead in absentia.
Sources[]
- SET News (Chinese)
- TVBS (Chinese)
- ET Today (Chinese)
- Taiwan Revelation (Chinese)